Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-12-09
MARKETS FOR WIVES.
The Four Great Matrimonial Marts
of New York.


New York, writes correspondent of
The Piadelphia Press. are the Sunday
school, tho big stores and factories, the
street, and the boarding houses.
have purposely arranged them in tho
order above because the greatest matri-
monial markets are the Sunday schools
anu the least are the bOarding-bouses.
Marriages are made in boarding houses.
but the average boarding-house keep
err daughter is more apt to end an old
maid than wife. The reason il that
II seems not to be good for the girls for
men to see them too much or i'm too
varied IA range of employment. 1t
takes the romance and poetry out OF
the wfe-huntcr's head and the charm
from girls personality for her TO be
seen on her knees scrubbing. or with
her head in towel swe' p NJ or sitting
ashes in slovenly wrapper. OF course
there are girls who can do every sort
of house work with such an air and
grace that even level headed lover
Will try TO steal the broom or ashes
sitter she has held in order to have it
for keep sake, but those girls are
not apt to be developed in the dul and
cruel or nd of boarding-house routine.
III the Sunday schools the girls look
their very best. Not only do thous-
ands of tendrr-hearted young fellows
attend them II order to develop cir
Gle of lady friends for themselves. but
just so do the myriad Of young women.
who are either here without any fami-
lies or who are shut up in factories all
day and live in parlorlesS tcnemcnts 10y
n ght, seek the same religious resorts
! for SIMILAR ends. 1t il a cur Oh, func-
/ ton that New York Sunda, schools
! perform. They are resOrtcd To by
about 200 Cinnamon. who 90 ,herc sim
ply to learn English. and BY thousands
OF Christians who 90 there to get ma
/ ted.
When | say the big shopping stores
are great matrimonial markets | do
not mean to have it Inferred tina, the
girls who stand bchn the counters
are gwen TO wedding the male costum-
Ell they wait upon. Such Things do
happen, suppose. but not frequently
enough for consideration. the fact being
that nothing could be worse for a
counter grl in II b g New York store
than for her 10 be cogrt.d while on
duty. II her employers Il Il not dis
charge her the other girls would tor
ment her beyond endurance. VI setngs
between the girls and the T beaux on
the way home from work are not to be
taken IN consideration, for the lasses 90
home in troops, and are mercless tea
sers, so that tn ; is also rare occur
renee. One of the big shopping stores.
by the way. employs detectives to see
that no Young fellows hang about tho
store at closing time TO meet the count
or girl But there is a field for matri-
mony that is directly in the stores, aud
is exceed ngly fruitful. The male EN-.
plo es. buyers. cashiers, and even the
members of the firms get very many
wives from among the girls whom
they meet every day and grow to all
mrc. if their quail ties are such as re-
commend them. Acquaintance thus
made lead 10 Wis Is at the girls homes.
to evening companonship. and TO well
lock. These same men and women IN
the big stores, by the way, are among
the hosts that attend the Sunday
schools.
There are actually streets set aside
for courtship by the parlorless poor
Upper Eighth avenue. where the
little shops are; lower Second
avenue. past the houses of the old
fogy rich. and the broadway, where
all the great shipping and express
offices are closed and dark-thero
are the great Il rtation prOmenades of
the tenement boys aud girls. There are
stupid folk who see the long procession
of gigging girls. in their best bows and
streamers, and imagine them to be off
the path Of virtue, or slippig oil. But
these are not the places where such
girls are found, and he who thinks i'll of
these girls had better not presume upon
his ignorance or he will find them well
able to take care of themselves. No;
they have put on Their secondbest
gowns, and the young northumberland
porters have put on their best coats
and plastered their locks with oil. and
both sexes have sailed out 10 meet and
lrt and pair off and walk home. They
don't know il, but they can not help
doing so. It's nature.
The Printers Suggestion.
Don't you find my manuscript easy
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